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A case-control study is a non-experimental, epidemiological inquiry in which groups of people are selected based on their disease status (for the health outcome of interest) and differences in their exposures are investigated.
[Source: MacMahon and Trichopoulos. 1996. Epidemiology: Principles and Methods. 2nd Edition. Little, Brown. Boston.]
